Welcome new members Pam Whitford and Chris Reay! Article by Joyce L. Wiedrich 03/05/2026 Good morning! We have now entered Lent. We had a wonderful Shrove Tuesday pancake supper and served about 45 people. It’s always great to have a meal together. Thank you to the nurture committee for arranging and cooking for us! Today our topic was about temptation. Pastor Jeannine had a bucket of cookies that she showed the kids. She said when her two daughters were growing up they had to wait for the cookies she baked until they told mom about their school day. Do we ever do anything we shouldn’t do? Do we ever have temptations? A lot of the kids said they sometimes sneak a cookie and then try to cover the evidence! We all know the story of Adam and Eve from the scripture in Genesis. It was a story of good and evil in the garden. They both were told that they should not eat the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, but were tempted anyway, and ate the fruit. Adam messed up big time and was kicked out of paradise. Because of Adam we now have a contract with death. Pastor Jeannine explained to us that Jesus broke up the power of sin and cleaned up Adam’s mess, bringing us hope. Jesus has paid the price for our sins and put things back better. He was a gift to us, and our hope. The father sacrificed his son so that we can live. He gave a lifeline to us. Lenten Bible study is of the final days. It is based on scripture from Luke and Matthew. All free to join in Mondays at 3pm. If you wish to order flowers for Easter to decorate the church in memory or honor of loved ones do so in the next week. Our church always looks so nice at Easter with all of the spring flowers adorning the altar. Please join us at 9 AM Sundays for our service. All are welcome.

The children always have a Bible lesson before a craft project in Sunday school. Article by Joyce L. Wiedrich 02/26/2026 This past Sunday was Transfiguration Sunday. So nice to be back in church today after weather related issues this month that had made travel, dangerous and nearly impossible on our rural roads with all of the wind and below zero temperatures. So good to see the sunshine and the warmer temperatures. Several events coming up at church as we enter Lent. This past week we had a wonderful Shrove Tuesday pancake and sausage dinner. We we’ll have a baked potato dinner later in the month. Blessings and congratulations to Robin DeSantis and Ron Jackson who were married on Valentine’s Day. Robin came to our church many times in the past while visiting her parents. She often joined choir events, playing her beautiful flute. Pastor Jeannine gave the children a lesson and told them about transfiguration Sunday before the adult sermon. This was based on scripture from Matthew 17: 1-9. It appears that Jesus asked James, John and Peter to go with him up Mount Tabor to pray. They followed him, but after they ascended the mountain, the disciples fell asleep. When they awoke, they saw Jesus speaking to Moses and Elijah, who had appeared, however both Moses and Elijah had been dead for several years prior to this event. Jesus’s clothes were transformed to a dazzling white. His face became beautiful and bright like the sun, as he was in the presence of God. Jesus asked the disciples not to tell anyone what they had seen. Are we willing to go up the mountain with Jesus to be transformed?